Numerous lawsuits have been filed against the Biden administration over vaccine mandates for private employers and federal contractors that are set to be published in the federal register on Friday.
The attorneys general of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee announced they would take legal action against the White House over the rule and filed a lawsuit (pdf) in a bid to challenge President Joe Biden’s rule affecting federal contractors.
The Biden administration unveiled details of its federal COVID-19 mandate on Thursday, providing a Jan. 4, 2022 deadline for federal contractors and health care employees who work at Medicare- and Medicaid-funded facilities. At the same time, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a rule requiring businesses with 100 or more employees to make sure all workers are vaccinated or submit to weekly testing, affecting tens of millions of workers.
“Unless we intervene, federal contractors in Tennessee will be forced to make sense of the mandate’s many inconsistencies that require their entire workforce be vaccinated or face potential blacklisting and loss of future federal contracts,” Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III said in a statement.
And Kentucky Attorney Daniel Cameron said that he takes “the issue of federal overreach seriously.” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost joined the lawsuit, saying that “the Biden administration may not do whatever it wants, however it wants.”
“The Constitution lays out critical rules by which the executive branch must operate,” he said. “Congress and the states have their own powers, which the administration can’t just take over because it wants to.”
Numerous lawsuits have been filed against the Biden administration over vaccine mandates for private employers and federal contractors that are set to be published in the federal register on Friday.
The attorneys general of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee announced they would take legal action against the White House over the rule and filed a lawsuit (pdf) in a bid to challenge President Joe Biden’s rule affecting federal contractors.
The Biden administration unveiled details of its federal COVID-19 mandate on Thursday, providing a Jan. 4, 2022 deadline for federal contractors and health care employees who work at Medicare- and Medicaid-funded facilities. At the same time, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a rule requiring businesses with 100 or more employees to make sure all workers are vaccinated or submit to weekly testing, affecting tens of millions of workers.
“Unless we intervene, federal contractors in Tennessee will be forced to make sense of the mandate’s many inconsistencies that require their entire workforce be vaccinated or face potential blacklisting and loss of future federal contracts,” Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III said in a statement.
And Kentucky Attorney Daniel Cameron said that he takes “the issue of federal overreach seriously.” Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost joined the lawsuit, saying that “the Biden administration may not do whatever it wants, however it wants.”
“The Constitution lays out critical rules by which the executive branch must operate,” he said. “Congress and the states have their own powers, which the administration can’t just take over because it wants to.”
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